A press conference for journalists was held in Russia on the threshold of “WORLD FOLK VISION – kids”

WORLD FOLK VISION

On May 15, a press conference for international journalists was held on the
territory of the Russian Federation on the threshold of the final gala concert
of the winners of the World Festival-Contest of National Cultures and Arts
WORLD FOLK.VISION-kids, which will be held on June 1 in the State
Kremlin Palace of the Russian Federation.

To questions of international journalists answered Zhanna Barsegova
(Eurasian Commissioner for Culture and International Humanitarian Cooperation
of the EECO and the coordinator of the project “WORLD FOLK.VISION – kids”), as
well as the producers of the Russian Center “Young Artist”, the operators of
the Russian part of the international project Merine and Zina Melikyan.

The Eurasian commissioner of the Eurasian Economic Cooperation Organization
(EECO) Zhanna Barsegova told the story behind the project.

The World Festival-Contest of National Cultures and Arts WORLD FOLK.VISION –
kids is part of the WORLD FOLK.VISION project, established on August 3,
2017 by the Council of Eurasia on Culture, Science and Education in the
framework of the implementation of the provisions of the Rome Convention “On
Cooperation in Eurasia on culture, science and education”.

In 2018, the right to conduct WORLD FOLK.VISION – kids was granted to
the Russian side as a result of competitive selection.

“WORLD FOLK.VISION is a series of international specialized
competitions-festivals of national cultures and arts, which are held under a
single worldwide international brand” said Zhanna Barsegova.

According to speech, "WORLD FOLK.VISION" is a new global project, where
about 80 countries are already registered. Based on the results of the national
competitive selection, on June 1, the final event will be held in different
countries around the world - a big gala concert of the winners of WORLD
FOLK.VISION-kids. The closest event in Russia will be devoted to
children's creativity. Winners will be awarded with "WORLD FOLK.VISION" awards.
Each winner will be awarded a unique certificate confirming the status of the
winner of the World Festival-Contest of National Cultures and Arts WORLD
FOLK.VISION-kids recognizing his contribution to the development of
world culture for the purpose of attractiveness and sustainable development of
countries and peoples.

This year the voting will start on the selection of the winners of the
children's contest "WORLD FOLK.VISION - kids" in 80 countries.

The operator of the “WORLD FOLK.VISION – kids” is the producing
center “Young Artist” from the Russian Federation, which has solid experience
in holding similar events.

“A huge number of representatives from different countries are already
showing great interest in the project. Negotiations on state participation with
such countries as the Republic of Turkey, Malaysia, the Republic of Armenia,
the United Arab Emirates, the Federative Democratic Republic of Nepal are
ongoing at this stage, where various regional stages of this world competition
are planned” explained Zhanna Barsegova.

The Eurasian commissioner added that the peculiarity of the project is that
the participants are not representatives of the country, but representatives of
specific regions from different countries, which allows us to disclose "the
entire palette and diversity of cultures of each country separately." One
country can represent several participants from different regions of this
country.

“At the moment, the project WORLD FOLK.VISION has 47 national directorates
in different parts of the world. Representatives from many countries express
their readiness to create national directorates to hold large-scale creative
festivals of high level,” added Zhanna Barsegova, finishing her presentation
with the slogan of the project “Wars end when culture and friendship between
nations begin”.

"The uniqueness of the project lies in the fact that cultural exchange takes
place on this international platform, regardless of age, faiths and
nationalities. In addition, it provides an opportunity to show not only the
country, but also regions and individual small nationalities from around the
world, "said Zhanna Barsegova.

Thus, according to Zhanna Barsegova, the project should attract great
interest from the point of view of tourism development on an international
scale, which is one of the priorities of the organizers of the World
Festival-Contest of National Cultures and Arts “WORLD
FOLK.VISION-kids”.

The owner of all intellectual property produced within the framework of the
World Festival-Competition is the non-governmental, non-political body of the
Eurasian Council for Culture, Science and Education.

Each country has a national jury. The voting results of the national jury
are announced by the authorized representative in turn from each country. The
nationality of the performer does not matter. Any performer can represent any
region of the country, even without being a citizen of the country. Political
statements are forbidden; It is not allowed to use obscene or offensive
language and commercial messages. A member of the national jury must be a
representative of the music industry: a radio presenter, a singer, a composer,
a text writer, a music producer or a teacher of music and other arts. All jury
members must be citizens of their country, which they represent. Formally, the
style of the participant's performance is not limited, the choice of the genre
of the performed music remains for the performer and the national directorate,
who selects the specific performance.

The emblem of the festival-contest was chosen during the international
competitive selection. The emblem shows an inscription in English WORLD
FOLK.VISION and a flower "cornflower", a beautiful, simple flower that does not
require special care. Its bright colors will not only adorn the international
lawn, and definitely will raise the mood. The flower of the festival-contest
grows on all continents of the world, which is very symbolic. There are about
500 kinds of cornflowers. Cornflower can be blue, purple, burgundy, white,
black, yellow, which symbolizes the different colors of the nations of the
world. Cornflowers have magical properties. It is believed that they protect a
person and his house from evil spirits. The flower is sung in many folk songs
and is rightly considered an ornament of fields and forests.

“The number of people wishing to take part in the festival-contest is
constantly growing. Applications for participation are already calculated not
in tens, but in hundreds” Zina Melikyan stated.

According to the idea of ​​the organizers, the venue of the
festival-competition can be the capital of the country, region, or the largest
administrative center with well-developed infrastructure and transport
logistics.

“The organizers raise high security requirements in the places of the
festival-contest. In order to ensure the safe and high quality of the
activities carried out within the framework of the WORLD FOLK.VISION,
healthcare, trade, communications, transportation, consumer services, the mass
media, various public organizations will be compulsorily involved in their
organization and conduct, with the current national legislation are assigned
the responsibility to ensure the order of the events” said Zhanna
Barsegova.

The final decision on the selection of the venue for the next WORLD
FOLK.VISION festival-contest in a particular country will be taken only after
receiving the fullest guarantee from the national authorities on observance and
provision of unprecedented security measures in the venue of the events.

Starting from 2018, every festival-contest will be held under its own slogan
(theme). The Russian children's stage is held under the slogan "Happiness".

Considering that at the festival-contest the jury members can vote not for
specific performers, but for the region of the country that they represent,
therefore the voting system in the festival-contest consists in summing up the
points received from the jury separately in each country. In order not to
significantly affect the final result of the vote, later the votes of all the
national juries are summed up.

Each continental or regional stage of the World Festival-Competition ends
with the final gala concert, at which the winners are awarded.

“We express confidence that the participants and guests of the Russian stage
of the World Festival-Competition WORLD FOLK.VISION will have bright,
unforgettable impressions, the joy of communication and meeting with real art,”
Merine Melikyan stated.

“At the beginning of the new millennium, it is especially important to
preserve the deep spiritual ties of the peoples of the world, to develop common
cultural traditions. I am confident that holding the World Festival-contest
WORLD FOLK.VISION in Moscow will fully serve these honorable aspirations” said
Zhanna Barsegova.